to think that the men digging up the road outside NOW should just f*** off and leave me in peace?!

[jennylindinha]

Seriously. 10pm on a Friday night and they are STILL drilling! WTF?

It's ruining my (well-deserved) evening in front of the tv - not even a gallon large glass of red is helping...

Ahem, as you were.

oh god, that's awful. I'm not very tolerant when it comes to this sort of thing, I would have been out there by now to ask them what time they are stopping and who authorised such late night work etc.

Would the council authorise this? If it continues you'll have to call environmental health.

What a complete PITA, I second your WTF, I think I would go out and throw things at them!

Don't let it put you off experimenting with thegallonsmall glass of red, it may help more than you think.

yabu. They're not there drilling 'cos it's their hobby - there's probably a burst main or gas leak or similar.

I think they are emergency repairs so they might have authorisation to go on late, but frankly this is taking the p*. I would go out and moan but DD is in bed...

I will have to throw something instead!

x-posts about throwing things! I understand they have to do stuff but they weren't drilling the road all day whilst I was here so why do they have to do it at night?

Emergency repairs can take place at any time of the day or night. I used to do emergency repairs for the waterboard and someone came out the house and threatened me and my mate with a shotgun!

Are you serious? Do emergencies only happen during office hours? If you wake up tomorrow with no water, electricity or whatever, you'd be wishing they had been working all night!

Ooh crikey, well I won't doing that! It's just really annoying because these are "planned emergency repairs" and will be going on for about 6 weeks. I have been at home all day today and they were not digging up the road all that time, so why now?

Groan...

What on earth did you do about the shotgun Goth?

I should add that the same thing happened yesterday but I went to bed early to get away from it.

we had this last night.

only we thought the low humming noise of the drill was ds snoring through the baby monitor

we thought it sounded cute

If only...

The shotgun thing was quite funny, we were down a hole and the bloke appeared with the gun. He hadn't realised at this point that my collegue was a 6ft7" bodybuilder. He climbed out the hole and looked at the bloke and said something like "if you're going to shoot you better hit me first time with that ". Bloke turned tail and fled.

Planned emergency repairs are often done at night as that will be the only time the council will allow them to be done, depending on the street. If you live on a busy road or vital link road they won't want traffic congestion in the day so will only let the work be done at night. Utility companies have to apply for permission for all work in the highway and may well have been told this. Can't imagine they'd be doing it at night and paying overtime unless they weren't allowed to do it in the day.

I can't believe someone actually came at you with a gun! and that you think it was funny. (and I can't believe I've finally used the blow-job shock face...)

I know they've got to do this work, but they've already diverted all the buses for 6 weeks and actually closed part of the road - I'm not sure I'll cope for that long if it is every night. Hopefully they'll move up the road soon!

I wasn't laughing at the time but it sort of passed into legend in the depot. Along with the night I nearly drowned in a 20ft deep hole of sewage and the time someone ran a badger over and a nurse stopped and offered to try CPR on the badger. It was all out in The Fens so you get some odd people there.

Well, I guess it beats an office job for variety...

Planned emergency repairs aren't emergency they should be done during daylight hours when it is safe.
I'm not going to tell you about the tragic death I am reading about in todays papers, but suffice to say if repairs had been carried out in daylight hours it probably wouldn't have happened.
Unless there are flashing lights, a strong smell of gas or an unexpected fountain in the middle of the street you have every right to be peed off about late night road digging.

Doesn't sound good.

They are still out there, but not digging now... Perhaps they won't work tomorrow